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Worship

Worship, a title of respect applied to a magistrate. 1. Any form of religious devotion of service showing reverence for a divine being 2. English Law: A

Mundhara, 1974 Cal WN 929. Means the proceedings which commences when the case is called on with the Magistrate on the bench, the accused in the dock and the representative of the prosecution and defence, if the

Sessions of the peace

their commission, or by charter, and by numerous statutes. They are of three descriptions:- I. Petty Sessions.--Metropolitan Police magistrates can act alone (see that title), with that exception, every meeting of two or more justices in the

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Reeve

a steward or bailiff. See DYKE-REEVE; FIELD-REEVE. A ministerial officer of high rank having local jurisdiction, the chief magistrate of a hundred, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1284. Reeve, means a ministerial officer of high rank

Protection order

Violence Act, 2005, s. 2(o)] Protection Order. 1. A wife deserted by her husband may obtain from a magistrate or the Divorce Court an order to protect property acquired and to be acquired by her since desertion,

Preamble

forth the ground and intention of it'. The preamble thus betokens that which follows, Dhananjoy Das v. District Magistrate, AIR 1982 SC 1315 (1319): (1982) 2 SCC 521: (1983) 1 SCR 122. Preamble, is a clause introductory

Magna Carta

accused of crime should be tried by a superior judge and a jury, and not by an inferior magistrate. It has, however, from time to time been necessary and expedient to give to justices and local magistrates

Local jurisdiction

Local jurisdiction, in relation to a court or Magistrate, means the local area within which the Court or Magistrate may exercise all or any of its or

Jus honorarium

Jus honorarium, the body of Roman Law, which was made up of edicts of the supreme magistrate, particularly the pr'tors. Jus honorarium, means 'magisterial law'. The body of law established by the edicts of the

Jury

deaf persons, are disqualified. Exemption from service may be claimed by peers, M.P.'s, clergy-men, ministers and priests, judges, magistrates, barristers and solicitors in actual practice, notaries public, officers of both Houses of Parliament, of the Supreme Court,

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